Photographs of Kate Moss's first ever sitting are to be auctioned at the end of the month and are expected to fetch between £800 to £1,200 each. Three gelatin prints of a 14-year-old Moss taken by David Ross in October 1988 will be sold through Bloomsbury Auctions on November 23.

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"Kate was a cool character" recalls Ross. "She seemed like a tough or resilient typical teenager, comfortably fronting me up, perhaps covering up her nerves… I suppose what was refreshing was that she was honest."

Moss's honesty
made headlines
earlier this month when she revealed she cried during a now-iconic photo shoot with Corinne Day for
The Face
, which saw her pose topless on a beach aged 16.

Ross continues: "She wasn't trying to prove anything or act above her station. She didn't try to adopt a model attitude of self-absorption and superiority, which at the time was becoming public via media sensation. She was untarnished. A blank canvas, as other writers have put it."

A new book looking back at the Croydon-born model's career entitled
Kate: The Kate Moss Book
, was released this month and is co-edited by the model herself. In interviews accompanying the tome's promotion she told the
New York Times
: "I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure."